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I'm afraid of my neighbors calling ICE and breaking up my family (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by muxika@lemmy.world to c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world
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I live in an area where people ask you where you're from and if you actually live in the neighborhood. They may assume you don't speak English, like they have with my wife.

ICE has already gone through the town nextdoor, and I'm waiting for our turn. I'm light-skinned, but my wife and kids are dark with Mayan features. I fear that all anyone has to do to terrorize my family is call a hotline. We have all our citizenship documentation, but that doesn't matter anymore.

I keep waiting for the day when I'm going to have to defend my family, but I might not even be around when things take place. What if they come take my wife while she's at work? What if she goes shopping and never comes back?

I have nothing without my family. I have nothing.

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[-] frizzo@piefed.social -1 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck that. Rise up and defend your neighborhood. Imagine if those cunts 200 years ago just rolled over and didn't dump tea into the harbor wed still be British with a king.

[-] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

So you're saying we'd be much better off because we'd have single-payer health care, a less hyperlocalized education system, tax-funded post-secondary education, and we'd prioritize soccer in high school rather than a sport made up of barbarism in body armor?

I'm really struggling to get the downside anymore. The Masons and the Gnostics ought to have paid their taxes and kept their heads down.

[-] frizzo@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago

You might want to do some research on how awesome living in England is currently. It's not all spoonfuls of sugar over there innit. I salute the blade runners for standing up for freedom cross the pond.

[-] cv_octavio@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I can't hear you over the CNN feed of NEAR CONSTANT SHOOTINGS AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, take on those armed people who are there looking for people to imprison, I'm sure you won't end up in alligator alcatraz or in a slave labor facility in El Salvador. This is totally the same as 200 years ago when it was just whites oppressed and they whites could coordinate en-masse because the foreign military had limited resources and manpower. /s

[-] frizzo@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago

What do you have to lose? They are going to imprison and torture you anyway. Make them suffer and work for it. You don't appease a bully, you make them bleed to understand. If only this was a free country with some amendments that would cover this situation...

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

|What do you have to lose? They are going to imprison and torture you anyway.

no, they can leave me alone and take the people in the streets. You are the absolute King/Queen of bad advice

this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2025
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